Shakers -- Kentucky -- Pleasant Hill;Account books -- History
Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky was the third largest of nineteen Shaker communities which existed in eight states during the nineteenth century. Many of the accounting records used by the Pleasant Hill Shakers are still in existence. An...
Ice industry -- Cost accounting;Tudor Ice Company;Tudor, Frederic, 1783-1864
This paper describes selected accounting records of the Tudor Ice Company which were devised to manage and control the far-flung business activities of Frederic Tudor, a 19th century entrepreneur who has been called America's first monopolist....
Taylor, Frederick Winslow, 1856-1915;Industrial management -- History;Cost accounting -- History
This article is to introduce the cost accounting system that Frederick Winslow Taylor installed at the Tabor Manufacturing Company sometime in the 1890s. A comparative analysis between this system and Captain Henry Metcalfe's Cost of Manufactures...
